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SHI & Research Canada: Advancing a Balanced Health Research Agenda SHI Consulting’s model of the ‘functional innovation system’—developed in collaboration with Research Canada, Canada’s premier heath research advocacy coalition—has become the cornerstone of the organization’s call for a more balanced approach to health research investment in Canada. In a recent article published by Research Money1, Research Canada Chair Dr. Michael Julius argues for the development and implementation of a national health research strategy that places funding decisions in the context of the larger innovation system. Without this integrative approach to funding health research, investments in research infrastructure and skills attraction and retention will ultimately be squandered. Citing Research Canada’s work with SHI Consulting, Julius explains the importance of this systemic approach to public investment in research: the functional innovation system model describes “a careful balance between push (knowledge creation) and pull (market forces) (which) is an essential starting point to achieving health care improvements. The model extends from creative inception to new products, health services and health care delivery paradigms…The aggregation of activity will interface with the policy cycle.” By applying the functional innovation system model to public policy, balanced investments in the other three pillars of research—discovery and clinical trials, technology, and delivery—can be made, thereby directing action to those areas which will have the most impact on health care innovation for the Canadian public. As Julius points out, “It’s not all about more money. Investing in one area will have an impact on the other.”
1 Source: Research Money; Volume 24 Number 1; January 25, 2010
Date: 2010-02-01
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